This video doesn’t really need the dramatic music and narration, but it sure doesn’t hurt. “Engineers are divided as to the cause of the disaster,” the narrator says, though I would  hope that’s not quite the case. Seems like there should pretty much be unanimity on how to build a bridge.

Hope you survived the first Monday of 2013 relatively unscathed. Tragically, some copy editors didn’t. The Onion reports.

How much am I worth? How much should I charge? Should I take this job?

These are the kinds of questions any thinking person asks themselves from time to time. If your work is such that you’re constantly trying to secure new clients on an ongoing or freelance basis, you probably ask yourself these sorts of questions more than most.

Mark Evanier has a great post about all this, and in it he links to another great blog post from a guy named Tom Richmond whose work you may have seen in MAD. Go read them both. There’s nothing of value I could add, no matter how hard I might try.

Today is Jack Hanna’s birthday. Here he is on David Letterman’s program back in 1990.

… with some perspective, shall we? Here’s a gallery of the 100 best space photos of 2012.